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  <div class="section" id="install-files">
<span id="command:install_files"></span><h1>install_files<a class="headerlink" href="#install-files" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p><span class="versionmodified deprecated">Deprecated since version 3.0: </span>Use the <span class="target" id="index-0-command:install"></span><a class="reference internal" href="install.html#command:install" title="install"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">install(FILES)</span></code></a> command instead.</p>
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<p>This command has been superceded by the <span class="target" id="index-1-command:install"></span><a class="reference internal" href="install.html#command:install" title="install"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">install()</span></code></a> command.  It is
provided for compatibility with older CMake code.  The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">FILES</span></code> form is
directly replaced by the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">FILES</span></code> form of the <span class="target" id="index-2-command:install"></span><a class="reference internal" href="install.html#command:install" title="install"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">install()</span></code></a>
command.  The regexp form can be expressed more clearly using the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GLOB</span></code>
form of the <span class="target" id="index-0-command:file"></span><a class="reference internal" href="file.html#command:file" title="file"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">file()</span></code></a> command.</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>install_files(&lt;dir&gt; extension file file ...)
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<p>Create rules to install the listed files with the given extension into
the given directory.  Only files existing in the current source tree
or its corresponding location in the binary tree may be listed.  If a
file specified already has an extension, that extension will be
removed first.  This is useful for providing lists of source files
such as foo.cxx when you want the corresponding foo.h to be installed.
A typical extension is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.h</span></code>.</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>install_files(&lt;dir&gt; regexp)
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<p>Any files in the current source directory that match the regular
expression will be installed.</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>install_files(&lt;dir&gt; FILES file file ...)
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<p>Any files listed after the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">FILES</span></code> keyword will be installed explicitly
from the names given.  Full paths are allowed in this form.</p>
<p>The directory <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;dir&gt;</span></code> is relative to the installation prefix, which is
stored in the variable <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.html#variable:CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" title="CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX</span></code></a>.</p>
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